[Solidarité Alpes Cachemire] Le village de Saryan

Le village de Saryan est situé près de l'épicentre du séisme, dans une vallée reculée. Les ravages y ont été terribles l'aide minimale jusqu'à l'arrivée de Wahab Ali.

Le Shimshal Mountaineers relief Groups

Wahab Ali
Guide, porteur d'altitude, 35 ans, originaire du village de Shimshal (Haut-Hunza/Gojal - Northern Areas). Un montagnard volontaire, puissant et altruiste.

Son équipe
Tous sont des Shimshalis, plusieurs d'entre eux travaillent l'été comme porteur pour des treks et expéditions.

- Muhammad Abbas
- Sajjad Karim
- Ghulam Sultan
- Wazir Baig
- Nasir Karim

As according to the rescue and relief program, Mission 2, we planed two of our team members will go and check the road situation, as the weather was rainy and snowing, so two of our team members went to survey and check the road situation, they came back and we made our schedule and decided to go along with the shelter sheets.

04th of Feb.2006, we started our second mission and left Islamabad to Muzzaffarabad, we reached in Muzzaffarabad and decided two of our team members go along with the shelter sheets to Saryan village, and rest of the members set the base in Muzzaffarabad city. It was really a problem to carry the shelter sheets for the jeeps from Muzzaffarabad to Saryan village, As from Muzzaffarabad to Saryan the road is too complicated and sloppy, and it was also a raining season in Saryan and around the Kashmir area, so we decided to carry 90 sheets per jeep, and we hired 5 jeeps and all the 5 jeeps belongs to the Saryan villagers. Our working setup was like two of our members were in Saryan village, two were in Muzzaffarabad city and one was in Islamabad, so the members in Muzzaffarabad were receiving the goods/shelter sheets and sending it to Saryan village.

So all the jeeps were working, loading or unloading as per the weather situation and it took too many days to drop the goods in Saryan village.
The team members in Saryan village were surveying and distributing the sheets according to the checking process, the one who have maintained the structure of house was supposed to receive the sheets other wise he was bound to make the structure of house first. So we got success in our working system and we cover almost all the houses in Saryan village, and now the Saryan village sounds like a change village, people do have a shelter to cover them selves. Along with our shelters few of them got shelter sheets from some another NGO, which really helped them out to make their shelter structure big and beautiful.

With the shelter sheets we had distributed the other goods as wel, where we’ve got 600 pieces of Jackets/coats and 60 pieces of Blanquette.

On 14th of Feb. 2006, we got some more goods for women and children from
 MR. FREDERIC MOINE, who’s the supporter of “French Solidarite Alpes Cachemir”
And also working with the SAVE CHILDREN in Pakistan. Our team member Mr. Wahab Ali Shah was also with him.

The goods received from Mr. Frederic Moine are as follows.

1.    264 pieces Kitchen crockery
2.    2000 pieces water canes
3.    264 pieces socks and shawls
4.    400 pieces Tea shirts
5.    1604 pieces of biscuits and sweets for children

It was really a useful thing and we cover all houses in Saryan village and we distributed these goods after the completion of our shelter work and arrived on 18th of Feb. 2006 in Islamabad.

The people of Saryan were so happy and they encourage the way we helped them because of you (France Solidarité Alpes Cachemire) and they thanks you as wel and I and my team member also thanks you too for your great help and donation for the people of Saryan.

After the disastrous earth quake in the Northern Areas and Azad Jamu and Kashmir, three weeks later, we, Karvan Relief Group was distributing the relief goods in Bala Kot in the Northern Areas, where we met Mr. Mir Alam a resident of Saryan Village who told us about the damages been done by the earth quake in Saryan Village and told us that there is no access of any NGO and any organization until then and requested us if we could access and provide assistance to the village. So on his request we, four friends left for Kashmir. After traveling 9 hours from Muzafarabad by foot we reached Mr. Mir Alam’s village known as Saryan. We found that the routine life in that village was totally destroyed and the people who were surviving were disappointed. The human life was totally depressed. Thousands of people were isolated from their families and they didn’t have anything left with them for their survival. All they had was buried under the concrete of their houses. I returned to Islamabad and contacted my friend Mr. Pierre through email and requested him that I need 265 tents for the earth quake effectees but he told me that it would take time so I started surveying in the Frontier region so due to which this effort of helping the earth quake effectees was delayed. I again contacted Mr. Pierre on 8th December 2005 and returned to Saryan Village for the survey camp. Where there had been snowing and the road had been cleared to Batal Village. After traveling two hours by foot from Batal, I reached in Saryan, where I met the surviving people who mentioned the necessities of that time like Blanquette, medicines, shoes, jackets, stationery etc. which I mailed to Mr. Pierre from Islamabad and he replied that he could tell me after two days. After two days Mr. Pierre wrote to me that the relief project has been approved and the relief fund would be transferred on Mr. Ishaq’s account. It took on week in the bank process of transferring the fund. Meanwhile I reserved all the relief goods. I received the fund on 4th January, 2006. So I purchased the reserved relief goods in two days. On 6th of January 2006 our relief group along with the relief goods left for Saryan Village. We reached at Batal Village where the people of Saryan had tried to clear the way to their Village themselves but due to the hard snowing, it was blocked again. So our group along with the villagers tried to clear the road to Saryan but due to hard snowing our vehicle could reach up to 3 kilometers. With the help of the villagers and our group we got to Saryan Village with the relief goods when we reached in Saryan, with the help of the villagers we distributed the relief goods to the needy people.
The following relief goods had been distributed to the needy people:
1. 50 Tents
2. 300 pairs of shoes
3. 300 Jackets
4. Medicines (various)
5. 300 Socks
6. Stationeries 4000 items (copies, raisers, pointers, sharpeners etc)
7. 75 Blanquette
8. 129 meters Under lying.

And the following team members including me returned to Islamabad after distributing the relief goods in the village on 10th January 2006:
1. Muhammad Abbas
2. Ghulam Sultan
3. Inayat Ullah
4. Nasir Karim
5. Sajjad Karim
6. Rehmat Khan
7. Sardar Ali




REMARKS


One of the most effected villages of the earthquake areas is SIRIYAN VILLAGE 25 km and 5000 feet above the sea level from Muzzafarabad (Azad Kashmir).
The survivals of the Saryan village are in disastrous situation having no food and basic necessities of life, although the Red Cross has provided the food but that is not sufficient.
When out team surveyed from home to home to consult about their basic needs so we came to know that the people are ever in a worse situation and struggling to survive, there was not even a single tent provided to the school students who were studying on two feet snow in the open air .On the upper part of the village, there is three to four feet snow so the people are avoided from the basic requirements of fire due to the wetness of the wood in the village so they are unable to burn the wood to cook and to heat them selves. The tents, which had been provided to them, had become useless due to the hard snowing. They are trying to survive in the save part of the house which has badly damaged due to the earth quake but it is impossible to survive in such spaces for the long run, where they could not sleep but could wait for the next morning with a hope of assistance. The innocent children with out having shoes and worm clothing are trying to face and win against the hard time. Due to lack of medical facilities, the sick women and children have to go to Batal for their medical treatment but due to the unavailability of the doctors, they become disappointed and return to Saryan from which it is obvious that with out having treatment God forbid the sick could loose their lives.
You had provided to us, we got that in that effected village but those relief goods are not above then their necessities they need time and more to settle down. So they need some people like you who can generously help them with out any return, we hope and expect that you will continue to help them until they settle down in their retinue life, where they need shelter sheets, tents, for school, furniture and gas calendars.
If these things could be provided they might get relieved and come to their routine lives and they could survive their lives with encouragement. This is the worst ever era which a historians would write but they would never forget to mention the generous assistance provided by people like you who helped the human being and set a new trend.

To,
The Co-coordinator,
Shimshal mountaineers
Relief group.

Sir,
Most respectfully, we are about 25km to the north and 5000 feet high from the sea, Because of the damage roads we are not getting any thing from the NGO’s and you guys found us for our help. 8th Oct. 2005 the earthquake disaster destroyed our village, all the homes with the living goods are destroyed and all the basic necessities of life are vanished. Three weeks later then the earthquake Mr. Wahab ali shah was in our Village with their team for survey by foot from (Muzzafarabad to Saryan). On 6th of Jan. 2006 Mr. Wahab ali shah is again in our village with their Team and the relief demands and they distributed that to the concerned Needy people and encourage them.
According to the survey your team observed and know well about our Needs, we gotta have a lot of needs but here we request you for some very Important needs.

PRIORITIES:-
We’ve set our priorities of needs as below: -

1.Shelters: -
We had got tents in our village but due to hard snowing those tents have become useless, so we desperately need shelter sheets to survive in this condition to save our lives.

2. Blanquettes: -
Due to the cold weather it has become hard to survive with out blanquettes so we need blanquettes.

3. Gas calendars/Stove: -
As it is the winter season, weather is too cold and there is no facilities of electricity due to which we cannot use electric heater, so we need gas calendars/stove.

4. Water supply: -
Due to the earthquake the springs have dried up and the water supply system has been badly damaged, so there’s no clean water supply and we are struggling for water.

5. Miscellaneous: -
Due to earthquake the houses have vanished, due to which all the houses hold things have been under concrete of the house, so we need these things
(Pots, Kettles, cups…etc)

We the residents of Saryan village expect and hope that the above requested requirements would be provided.
We thank you and your team who reached here for assistance and encouragement.
We would never forget your assistance and kind help in this time of need, your team has been superb to provide assistance and we deeply appreciate your efforts.

UNDER SIGHNED CONCERNS
Worker’s organization is as follows:

Village saryan, Area Batal, Distt. Muzzafarabad, Vote no.02
Union council Tangaran, Cotla valley.

1. Server Yousaf S/O Server Ahmed Noor
2. M.Yousaf S/O Ghulam Rabani
3. M. Jan S/O Alam Din
4. Mir Alam S/O Taqseem
5. M. Zaman S/O Din Muhammad
6. Hakim Uddin S/O Lal Din
7. Muhi-UD-Din S/O Ibrahim
8. Malik Aziz Ullah S/O Habib Ullah
9. Siddique S/O Noor Ali
10. Shah Rehman S/O Ahmed Noor
11. M. Miskeen S/O Rehmat Ullah
12. Jamal Din S/O Nizam Uddin

16/11/2005
"Pierre, le gars qui fabrique les tentes ne pourra le faire que quand il recevra l'argent. J'espère qu'il arrivera un jour. J'attends de tes nouvelles et repars avec l'iucn au Cachemire."

15/11/2005
"De retour à Islamabad : je suis retourné au Cachemire pour voir d'autres villages, pour les Nations unies. J'ai vu deux autres villages avec des pistes cassées, les gens ont vraiment besoin de nourriture…"

12/11/2005
"À l'aide !"  Par Wahab Ali

10 et 11/11/2005
La mission de reconnaissance à Saryan.
Par Wahab Ali, traduit par Pierre Neyret
"Salut. Je suis descendu de Shimshal il y deux semaines et je me suis rendu au Cachemire. J'ai vu le village de Sarya qui comptait 250 maisons. 500 personnes sont mortes. Les gens ont besoin de tentes et de nourriture. Mais la piste est coupée et personne n'est prêt à porter. Tu nous connais, nous les Shimshalis, on sait ce que c'est que de marcher. Je suis avec Dilbar et d'autres amis, l'agence Karavan leader nous aide avec quelques tentes, mais nous avons besoin d'un minimum de 150 tentes, plus de la farine, du sucre, du lait, des lentilles, de l'huile. Une tente coûte entre 6 000 et 10 000 roupies (100 et 150 €).

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